Learning Goals
Skill
Familiarize students with these data resources and their contents by retrieving information on various Florida cities and metropolitan areas.
Context for Use
This exercise for an Urban Sociology course provides a look at demographics in Florida Metropolitian Area.
Description and Teaching Materials
In addition to the raw data files that you analyzed in Module One, the US Census makes a great deal of information about cities (and everything else) available through its various publications. Our learning objective in Module Two is to familiarize students with these data resources and their contents by retrieving information on various Florida cities and metropolitan areas.